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S&P 500

stock · in 19 sources (2018–2023)

Sources by year: 2018: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2021: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2023: 7

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What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2023

  • 2023-01-31 · I Asked 5 Millionaires for Their Best Financial Advice — Ali says the S&P 500 as an index fund returns about 7% a year: $100 put in this year (2023) becomes $107 next year (2024). (hedged) — 00:00:58
    • Alex Hormozi (quoted): Alex Hormozi's principle, as Ali relays it: a far better use of money than the S&P 500 is the "S and me": you get a significantly higher return investing in your own ability to make money than in any market. — 00:01:27 · also in: 7 Life Lessons School Didn’t Teach You
    • Ali says Alex Hormozi's point changed how he approaches investing: where he, like most people, would have said the S&P 500, he now tells people with spare money to invest first in their own skills and ability to make money, especially early in their career. — 00:01:56
  • 2023-02-26 · How to Invest for Beginners (2026) — Ali: An index fund, Ali explains, is a basket of stocks that tracks a stock market index, such as the S&P 500, basically the 500 biggest companies in the US. — 00:06:02
    • The S&P 500 weights companies by size, Ali says: Hasbro makes up 0.21% of it and Apple 6.4%. — 00:06:31
    • The point of the S&P 500, Ali says, is a single number you can graph over time for how valuable the US stock market is, since most of that value sits in these 500 companies. — 00:06:31
    • Alex Hormozi (quoted): Alex Hormozi, as Ali relays him, contrasts investing in the S&P with investing in the "S&ME": you get a significantly higher return investing in your own ability to make money than in any market. — 00:18:44
  • 2023-03-29 (said on 2023-03-13, implied) · My Goals for 2023 - Life Update — Ali generally puts the spare cash his business generates into index funds such as the S&P 500 and diversifies into investments de-correlated with his popularity on the internet, since a creator career's longevity is not guaranteed. — 00:02:17
  • 2023-05-10 · 5 Steps to Start Your First Business — Ali generally invests most of his money in broad stock market index funds like the S&P 500, where the vast majority of his net worth sits, keeping some money aside to play with individual stock picking. — 00:09:59
  • 2023-05-19 · 7 Life Lessons School Didn’t Teach You — recommendation: Ali says $100 spent on improving your own skills, such as ten business books on how to get rich, returns far more than putting it into stock market index funds. — 00:05:17
    • Ali says money put into the S&P 500 grows at five to seven per cent a year. — 00:05:17
  • 2023-08-11 · If I Wanted to Be a Millionaire Before 30, I'd Do This — recommendation: Ali generally does not recommend investing in individual stocks: he, like most people, recommends a broad stock market index fund such as a Vanguard fund or the S&P 500, playing with individual stocks with about 10% of his portfolio. — 00:08:28
  • …and 9 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2022

  • 2022-04-29 · How to Invest as a Teenager — recommendation: Ali's third point is to invest a small amount in index funds such as the FTSE 100 (the top 100 UK companies) or the S&P 500 (the top 500 US companies), which for most people is way better than picking individual stocks. — 00:02:55
    • A teenager's $10 in the stock market will compound, but negligibly; the point, Ali says, is to get familiar with investing and into the investor mindset of putting spare cash into an index fund without a second thought. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-05-04 · My $2.4m London Apartment Tour — recommendation: Ali would put £180,000 not spent on a deposit into a low-cost index fund like the S&P 500. — 00:28:17
    • The S&P 500 returns about 7% a year on average over the last 30 years, Ali says, though it has done really well in the last five to ten. — 00:28:17
  • 2022-05-26 · Why Buying Is Not Always Better Than Renting — Ali: £200,000 put into an S&P 500 index tracker at a 7% average yearly growth would become over £283,000 in five years, a profit of over £83,000, Ali calculates. — 00:09:35
    • With his own London assumptions (20% down, 2–4% interest, 1–5% appreciation, £4,000 a month rent, S&P 500 returning −2% to 8%), Ali's model shows little difference for ten years, then a buyer's wealth of 2.5 to 6 million against a renter's 600,000 to 4 million. (hypothetical) — 00:13:29
  • 2022-09-24 · How to Retire in 10 Years (starting with $0) — Ali: The 4% rule of the FIRE community: withdraw 4% of an investment portfolio a year to live on without touching the principal; $1 million in an S&P 500 account gives $40,000 a year, as it probably grows 7% to 10% a year. — 00:05:10
  • 2022-10-26 · I Asked 15 Experts For Life Advice. Here's What I Learned. — Alex Hormozi (quoted): Alex Hormozi says many people make the mistake of investing in the S&P when they should be investing in the "S&Me", in themselves. — 00:08:16
  • …and 1 statement more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

2021

  • 2021-04-15 · 9 Passive Income Ideas - How I Make $27k per Week — Ali explains that money invested in an S&P 500 index fund is spread over the 500 biggest US companies, weighted by size, such as about 2% each in Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. — 00:03:13
    • Ali says the S&P 500 rose by about 50% in the 12 months from 2020 to 2021, despite COVID. — 00:03:42
    • Ali's stocks and shares portfolio, invested since 2015 and mostly in the S&P 500 index fund, is worth around $350,000; at a rough 10% a year that is about $682 a week of passive income. — 00:06:24
  • 2021-06-18 · 6 Passive Income Ideas in 60 Seconds #shorts — Ali says a stock market index fund such as the S&P 500 returns about 7% a year on average. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-08-15 · Revealing ALL My Investments at 27 — Ali: Basically all of Ali's index-fund money is in the S&P 500, an index fund of the 500 biggest US companies weighted by market cap: of $1,000 invested, about $40 goes to Apple, $30 to Google, $20 to Microsoft and $20 to Amazon. — 00:02:47
    • Ali treats individual stocks as a fun side thing, fully expecting not to beat the market: 90% of his stocks and shares are in the S&P 500 index fund and 10% he dabbles with on Freetrade. — 00:09:25
  • 2021-12-09 · The Book That Changed My Financial Life 🤑 — Ali: For people born in the 1970s the S&P 500 grew tenfold between their ages of 13 and 30, while for those born 20 years earlier the market went nowhere, so the two groups see stocks very differently. — 00:00:29
    • Ali used to find it weird that more people do not invest in the S&P 500 or in crypto; after reading the book he says he needs to stop judging, since attitudes to money depend on circumstances. — 00:00:59
    • Ali's fourth lesson is to appreciate the magic of compounding: $1,000 in an S&P 500 index fund returning about 10% a year becomes $1,100 in year two and $1,210 in year three, as you earn gains on your gains. — 00:03:54
  • 2021-12-16 (said on 2021-12-03, implied) · How Much Money I Make as a YouTuber (2021)💰 — recommendation: Ali tells everyone not to bother investing in individual stocks unless they are very lucky, and to invest instead in broad stock-market index funds such as the S&P 500, which tracks the top 500 US companies. — 00:08:16
    • Ali dabbles in individual stocks with a small share of his portfolio for fun, knowing that is not how he will make money, and puts the rest of his stock money into the S&P 500. — 00:08:16
    • A £500 monthly standing order buys the S&P 500 in Ali's Vanguard general investment account; he put in £6,000, already had £60,000, the investments returned £16,000, and the account ended at £82,909.50. — 00:09:15
  • …and 5 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2020

  • 2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: A stock market index is a list such as the FTSE 100, the 100 biggest companies in the UK, or the S&P 500, the 500 biggest companies in the US. — 00:10:25
    • In the S&P 500, Apple makes up 6.5%, Microsoft 5.5%, Amazon 4.7% and Facebook 2.2%. — 00:10:54
    • Over its history the S&P 500 has trended upwards, with crashes in 2000, in 2008 and early in 2020 as the coronavirus spread, after which the market recovered almost at once. — 00:11:53
    • Basically all of Ali's investments are in the S&P 500, so about 6.5% of them are in Apple, 5.5% in Microsoft and 4.7% in Amazon. — 00:12:22
    • Index funds such as the S&P 500 give you a decent amount of diversification, so you do not rely on one sector such as tech or oil. — 00:12:51
    • Warren Buffett (quoted): Warren Buffett famously says that if given £100,000 to invest now, he would just put it in an index fund like the S&P 500. — 00:13:54
    • In the 2008 financial crash the S&P 500 fell from about 1,500 in 2007 to 735 by February 2009, about 50% of its value wiped out. — 00:18:08
    • Someone who bought the S&P 500 at 1,500 just before the 2008 crash and held on would now see it at 3,445, more than double. — 00:18:37
    • If every company in the S&P 500 crashed to zero, the world would be in a mega apocalypse and the value of your portfolio would be the least of your problems. — 00:19:20
    • As of 2020 a Lifetime ISA takes up to £4,000 a year, which can be invested in the S&P 500, as Ali would do; MoneySavingExpert explains the account. — 00:28:12

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